Webbasierendes Single-Stream Flash Radio. Es werden alle gängigen MPEG/AUDIO-Streams unterstützt. Es läuft direkt über das Browserplugin Flash 8 und ist somit auf fast allen Plattformen erreichbar.
Tested on MAC, PC, LINUX:
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0 beta 2
- IE 6.0.2900.2180
- IE 7.0
- Opera 9.24
- Netscape 7.1
- Netscape 9.0.0.5

For test your radio streams: http://native.flashradio.info

Functions and more read under:
http://blog.codingexpert.de/?p=31

Webbasierendes Shoutcast Flash Radio. Es unterstützt alle auf http://www.shoutcast.com/ gehosteten Radiochannels. Es läuft direkt über das Browserplugin Flash 8 und ist somit auf fast allen Plattformen erreichbar.
Durch die deeplink-Technologie ist es möglich die Radio Sender-URL des Browsers an andere zuversenden:
http://shoutcast.flashradio.info/#/House/6668 (FLASH 8+ plugin required)

Functions and more under:
http://blog.codingexpert.de/?p=30

Installazione e configurazione di Icecast + Ices2

Questa non è una guida!!! Sono solamente miei appunti...

apt-get install icecast2 ices2

vi /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml

Modificare le 3 righe
<source-password>primapassword</source-password>

<relay-password>secondapassowrd</relay-password>

<admin-password>terzapassword</admin-password>

vi /etc/default/icecast2

Modificare da ENABLE=false a ENABLE=true.

Riavviare icecast2
/etc/init.d/icecast2 restart

Creare le directory di ices2:
mkdir /var/log/ices
mkdir /etc/ices2
mkdir /etc/ices2/music

Copiare il giusto file di conf:
cp /usr/share/doc/ices2/examples/ices-playlist.xml /etc/ices2

e modificare
<background>0</background> in <background>1</background>
<param name="file">playlist.txt</param> in <param name="file">/etc/ices2/playlist.txt</param>
<password>hackme</password> in <password>primapassword</password>

Creare il file /etc/ices2/playlist.txt
find /etc/ices2/music -name *.ogg > /etc/ices2/playlist.txt

Riavviamo icecast e lanciamo ices2:
/etc/init.d/icecast2 stop
/etc/init.d/icecast2 start
ices2 /etc/ices2/ices-playlist.xml

Fine

Cependant avoir votre musique sur un serveur chez vous et rien sur votre portable, ça vous donne des séances de projets tuteurés à l'université assez moroses. J'ai bien essayé un petite connexion SSH pour récupérer quelques pistes via scp, mais le tout est pas très rapide et pas très utilisable. À partir de là, une idée qui me trottais dans la tête depuis quelques temps m'a semblé devenir indispensable...

L'idée c'est d'implémenter un service de stream sur mon serveur qui diffuserai à la demande et de façon très restreinte la musique que j'ai. Après quelques recherches, j'ai trouvé une solution qui me convenait assez bien, à savoir MPD (que j'utilise déjà quand je suis en local) pour lire la musique sur le serveur, commandé par une interface web grâce à pitckfork, le flux produit par MPD étant dirigé sur Icecast2 afin d'y être transformé en flux stream. Ce flux reste en local car je ne souhaite pas que n'importe qui écoute en même temps que moi. Il sera donc nécessaire d'établir une connexion ssh avec redirection de port pour y avoir accès.

Après la parlotte, passons à la pratique. Je vous laisse installer MPD, Pitchwork (ou autre, Pitchwork n'est pas la seul interface web pour MPD mais cependant je la trouve assez réussi) et Icecast suivant les distributions que vous avez. Je ne m'intéresserai qu'à la configuration de MPD et Icecast2.

MPD :

Dans /etc/mpd.conf hormis la configuration par défault qui consite à indiquer l'emplacement de votre musique, des playlist, de l'utilisateur pour lequel MPD est lancé etc... ce qui nous intéresse est ce qui se trouve sous la bannière :

################ SHOUT STREAMING ################

Je vous met à la suite la configuration pour l'un de mes flux (j'ai configuré MPD pour avoir un flux 'haute qualité' et un 'moyenne qualité' ) Le détail est en dessous

audio_output {
type "shout"
name "Thot's HQ stream"
host "localhost"
port "8000"
mount "/hq.ogg"
password "abcdefgh"
quality "5.0"
# bitrate "128"
format "44100:16:1"
#
# Optional Paramters
user "source"
description "Flux Haute Qualitée"
genre "All"
}

audio_output{ } est obligatoire et indique la configuration d'une sortie audio (vous vous en seriez doutés) celle-ci peut etre pour une sortie physique ou comme ici vers un fichier, spécifié par l'argument ' type "shout" '.

Viens ensuite le nom que vous voulez lui donner, celui-là même qui apparaîtra dans Icecast. Host et port définissent où est envoyé le flux de sortie, en l'occurence sur le même hôte vers le port 8000.

Mount défini le 'point de montage' c'est à dire l'emplacement ou sera disponible ce flux Dans notre cas : http://localhost:8000/hq.ogg

Le mot de passe qui suit est celui qui servira entre MPD et Icecast. Notez le, il vous sera redemandé par la suite.

Viennent ensuite quelques paramètres de qualités que je vous laisse analyser, le paramètre 'user' qui définit le nom utilisé pour se connecter à Icecast et en 'optional parameters' des infos qui seront affichés en rapport au stream diffusé.

Pour MPD ça sera tout, si vous souhaitez plus de renseignement, n'hésitez pas à consulter la page MPD sur ubuntu-fr.org

Passons à Icecast :

Le fichier de configuration est au format XML et se trouve dans /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml

Je ne vous détail pas tout les paramètres, ils sont très nombreux et pas tous intéressants. Ce qui nous occupe se trouve entre les balises <authentification> :

<source-password>abcdefgh</source-password>

C'est ici qu'il faut placer le mot de passe spécifié dans mpd.conf

<admin-user>admin</admin-user>
<admin-password>change_me</admin-password>

Ces deux paramètre servent pour accéder à la partie admin de l'interface web.

Vérifiez aussi la balise suivante et la configuration pour une utilisation basique devrait être suffisante.

<hostname>localhost</hostname>

Il ne vous reste plus qu'à redémarrer mpd et icecast après quoi vous pourrer lancer la diffusion avec mpd (via pitchfork) et écouter ce qui en résulte avec VLC par exemple en choisissant la lecture d'un flux réseau pour lequel vous indiquerez donc :

http://ip_du_serveur:8000/nom_du_flux.ogg

Je ne saurais que vous conseiller de ne pas ouvrir ce port sur internet et, lorsque vous souhaiterez en profiter depuis l'extérieur, d'ouvrir une session ssh avec redirection de ce port pour une plus grande sécurité.

Si vous avez des soucis d'installation ou de configuration, je suis dispo.

By Adam,

You might remember my previous look at a rather substantive PSP firmware update. So, what is new in the ever-evolving world of the PSP?

The firmware update lists the following changes

[Internet Radio] has been added as a feature under [Network].
The importing of channels in OPML format is now supported under [RSS Channel].
Photos can now be displayed under [RSS Channel].
New effects have been added to the visual player under [Music].

I was going to call this post "PSP Firmware 3.80 in-depth" and go through all the features in turn.  However in my opinion, Internet Radio is the only substantive feature that has been added- the rest are superficial yet still welcome nonetheless.

Internet Radio
This is probably THE killer feature of this particular firmware update; increasing the PSP's ever-expanding features and value proposition. On reboot, the first thing you'll notice is [Internet Radio] under [Network]. When you click on [Internet Radio] you'll see [About Internet Radio] which you can click on. You are then sent to the PSP Internet Radio site, shown below:

You can access the page directly here.

You then click on "adding an internet radio player", shown below:

You can access the page directly here.

Here you can download either player 1 or player 2.  The only difference I've noticed is that player 1 gets its radio list from SHOUTCAST and player 2 gets its list from ICECAST.

How it works
Depending on which one you download (or even both), the relevant icon will display within [Internet Radio].  You just click on this option, which takes you to a webpage.  But before you do so, you have to accept the message: "do you want to run the plugin embedded in this page?"

At first, the internet radio was quite slow to load up, however in successive tests (even after having the PSP turned off) performance has increased greatly (due to the player being cached in the browser's memory.)  Internet radio works by 'tuning' into a broadcast streaming off the internet.  A definition/overview of internet radio is available here from Wikipedia.

Not an exact science
To select the radio station you want, you just choose your genre and then click elsewhere on the radio 'frequency' gaug, just like you would on a real radio.  Yet you can't find exactly what you want.  How do I mean?  I found a helpful comment from Gaffman on PSP Fanboy:

The radio is fairly well implemented but hard to find anything specific. You have to pick a genre, then manually skip through stations without really knowing what's coming up. Its a bummer because I was hoping to be able to search for specific stations, say if a friend had a shoutcast station setup you could tune in on PSP wherever you were. The current setup seems to be based on popularity with no regard for language or anything else.

If there ever was a criticism about the implementation of Internet- then that just about sums it up.  However Sony were probably trying to come up with a fairly simple implementation for the average consumer.  It is also interesting to note, that in theory, internet radio is not too dissimilar from streaming audio podcasts off the internet on a PSP, yet its actual implementation is quite different.

Overall rating: 4 out of 5 STARS

PSP's new killer feature.  Even if it's not what you always desired; check it out, have a play with it.  Therefore PSP firmware 3.80 comes highly recommended.

I use the radio feature most of the time as I quickly destroy my own music collection by repeatedly listening to my favorite songs. BMPx has two of the most popular radio station directories to choose from: Shoutcast and Icecast. They are both integrated into the graphical shell, so there's no need to open your browser to start a stream. Since Icecast doesn't have that many stations, all 1,500 stations are loaded for you; but you will have to update the list manually from the menu during your first use. Shoutcast stations are loaded by genre due to the fact that there are a total of over 20,000 stations. If you are looking for a particular station, you can simply use the search bar at the top. The Shoutcast functionality is a bit more refined and it makes it easier for you to find a good station by giving you a list of the top 500 radio stations. Once you've picked out a few stations that you like you can then add them to your favorites; but unfortunatelyyou cannot later remove them from your favorites due to BMPx's beta stage. As a bonus, most internet stations don't have commercials, they don't have any annoying chit-chat and they are streamed in CD quality sound.

If 21,500 radio stations are not enough to satisfy your music hunger, there's Last.fm. What makes Last.fm unique is its' audioscrobbler feature. The Last.fm audioscrobbler personalizes the music stream based on your personal music taste. You simply input the name of a song or artist and the audio scrobbler will try to match the exact initial song and then it will try to match the same taste of music in the following songs. Once you get Last.fm going, the top-left box will display relevant matches allowing you to choose exact track you had in mind. The right box will display all of the tags (eg. funk, rock, etc...) related to the song you are listening to; you can click on one of these to further fine tune your radio stream. The left-bottom box displays your information such as your personal music tags and what your friends are listening to. Once Last.fm has started playing your music you can skip songs and fine tune your stream even further by letting the audioscrobbler know what songs you like and dislike by pressing the appropriate button in the menu. In addition to that, you can let the audioscrobbler know which personal MP3's and Jamendo tracks you like and dislike to further fine tune your radio stream. This all sounds great in theory, but I still prefer the playlist a live music DJ provides. In actuality, Last.fm makes listening to music boring as each track is almost like the previous one - variety is good.

Your personal MP3 collection is displayed in a systematic manner where by you first select the artist, then album and then the track, thus allowing you to manage your music accordingly. It couldn't be any easier, but there were some problems. I did have a problem with one MP3 which was causing BMPx to crash, in addition to that I couldn't get the cover art to display in the album box. Anyhow,besides having MP3 support, BMPx supports Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MOD, MPC, MP4, AAC, M4A, WMA, SID, WAV and SPC codecs. You can explore your existing collection by right-clicking on the track to get more information about the artist from the internet. And if you would like to sing along, you can right-click on the track and download the lyrics from an internet server. The two former features are actually available globally, including in the radio, CD player and in Last.fm. Navigating through your music globally within BMPx is easy with a few keyboard shortcuts, there even is an option to enable global Linux hotkeys. BMPx minimizes to your tray while still giving you full control of the player. Right-clicking on the tray icon give you full track control and left-clicking restores the BMPx window. Hovering your mouse over the tray icon displays the track information, including cover art. For those of you who have a large MP3 collection, search is simply enabled by typing on the keyboard.

Managing your playlist in a single album is a breeze thanks to the boxes you check and uncheck to select the song that you would like to play. If you are creating a play list from multiple albums you have to right-click on the tracks the you would like to enqueue. What is really annoying about this feature is that you first have to left-click on the track before you can right-click on it. The playlists can be saved and exported in a variety of popular formats, but what is really impressive is the ability to create a playlist based on a Last.fm tag.

The podcast feature in BMPx is just as intuitive as all of the other features in BMPx. Your podcast link is even automatically pasted into the URL entry field when you select to add your podcast via the menu. Once added, the top pane will display your different podcasts, the left bottom box will display the actual downloaded podcasts and right-bottom box will display the actual podcast info. To delete an old podcast you simply uncheck the box beside the podcast. And when you are going to reformat your hard drive you can export your podcast list to a file.

Now I come to the most original BMPx feature - the Jamendo integration. Jamendo allows artists to share their music online for free based on the principal that if you like the music you will later buy it. To get Jamendo started first you will have to download the Jamendo music database onto your hard drive via a menu shortcut; this only takes about thirty seconds. Once you have downloaded themusic database you literally have over 6,000 original virtual albums on your computer. When you play your Jamendo music there only is about a three second delay between you pressing play and the song playing. Due to the fact that most of the artists are relatively new, you will not be able to retrieve any lyrics and artist information. As you start browsing through Jamendo's large list of artists you'll be blown away by the amount of good independent music.

I have presented to you the good and the bad of BMPx. The good news is that BMPx is only at version 0.40.13 so it is going to keep on getting better and the few bugs will eventually be eliminated; I've only experienced a crash once. There are a few features that I can think of adding, with a radio stream ripper being one of them. Also, BMPx does have an equalizer, so a few equalizer presets would be nice. The lack of not being able to delete favorite radio stations has been addressed in the forums, so that feature should be coming in the next version. Besides these minor issues BMPx is a full featured audio player that cannot be matched in ease of use and functionality by any other piece of software at this current time.